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KERA

Chr 12q21.33

keratocan

Aliases:
SLRR2B
MANE:
ENST00000266719.4

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Corneal abnormalities

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Corneal dystrophy

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Structural eye disease

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • cornea plana 2

    0.72
  • cornea plana

    0.46
  • congenital cornea plana

    0.37
  • Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy

    0.08
  • posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy

    0.08
  • autosomal recessive spondylocostal dysostosis

    0.08
  • early-onset non-syndromic cataract

    0.07
  • Familial ocular anterior segment mesenchymal dysgenesis

    0.07
  • hair color

    0.07
  • Peters anomaly

    0.07

Score is the Open Targets composite evidence score (0-1). Higher = stronger gene-disease association.

Protein function (UniProt)

Keratocan

May be important in developing and maintaining corneal transparency and for the structure of the stromal matrix

Data sources: HGNC (CC BY 4.0), AlphaFold (CC BY 4.0, Jumper et al. Nature 2021), Genomics England PanelApp (CC BY 4.0), ClinGen, Open Targets (CC0), UniProt.

Not for sole clinical decision-making. Always verify against primary sources.